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Jackson Brown Jr. included in his book Life's Little Instruction Book, a truism that fits today the House of Delegates, “Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.”
As readers of this column know, a group of Republican Delegates are devoted to moving our Commonwealth Government toward more efficiency and cost effectiveness. It is easy to point a finger at the inefficiencies of another person or institution, but does one have the focus and dedication to improve ones own person or institution? In the case of the Virginia House of Delegates, I am pleased to answer “yes.”
My columns in years past occasionally described the general chaos reigning in the House during our legislative period in Richmond. The worst example was the problem of overlapping committee and subcommittee hearings, the difficulty in getting enough members in a particular meeting in order to move legislation. Sometimes Delegates would be required in three meetings at the same time. I have been in one subcommittee meeting when a chairman of another would call me and plead with me to leave the meeting I was attending and rush to the caller’s meeting in order to make an official quorum.
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The Republicans now occupy sixty-four of the one hundred seats in the House of Delegates. With Republicans firmly in control for the first time in the three hundred eighty three year history of the oldest legislative body in the New World, Speaker Wilkins set out to make needed reforms.
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